468 FLIGHT MAY 3RD, 1945
THERE
Grounded
A GERMAN High Command statementdisclosed last week that Luftwaffe
crews were fighting in the streets of
Berlin as anti-tank shock troops.
Antwerp's VI Ordeal
ANTWERP was the target for 9,000flying bombs, it was stated last week
in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies at
Brussels. Among the 3,000 people killed
during' these attacks was M. Camille
Huysmans, the port's Burgomaster and
a member of the Chamber.
Allies' Allocations
OF the 32,000 American aircraft of alltypes delivered to the Allies up to
the end of 1944, Great Britain has re-
ceived 8,500; Russia 12,000; China,
India and the Australian theatre (1,500,
and the Mediterranean area (including
France and Africa) 5,000.
In the Field
AIR MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR CON-INGHAM, A.O.C.-in-C. 2nd T.A.F..
last week presented decorations to three
pilots of a Norwegian wing which has a
confirmed score of nearly 200 enemy
aircraft destroyed. The presentation was
made on an airfield captured from the
Germans in Holland.
U.S. Award for Air Marshal
AIR MARSHAL SIR FRANCIS JOHNLINNELL has been awarded the
U.S. Legion of Merit in the Degree ofCommander i " for exceptionally meri-
torious condfcct in the performance ofservices as Deputy C.-in-C.
nean Allied Air Forces."
reads: '' For seeing theeration and team work in
Df combined operationsknell proceeded to create
SEEING THE RESULT : Workers at the Abingdon factory of M.G. Cars Ltd.,where certain major parts of the Tempest are made, were recently given a flying
display by a squadron of these famous Hawker fighters. Sir Stafford Crippssuggested the idea and made arrangements with the Ait Ministry. The pilots of
the squadron were, in their turn, shown over the airqraft shops at the works.
a highly efficient organisation to hasten
the accomplishment of that mission."
General Spaatz DecoratedG
EN. CARL SPAATZ, chief of the U.S.Air Forces in Europe, was decorated
last week at St. Germain-en-Lay e withthe Insignia of Grand Officer of the
Legion of Honour by Gen. Bouscat, In-spector-General of the French Air Force.
A number of other U.S.A.A.F. and
TEN-TON TESSIE : The warhead of the R.A.F.'s 22,000-lb. bomb loaded on a
lorry specially built to carry such loads. The vehicle is an articulated ERF,
driven by a 90 h.p. direct-injection compression-ignition engine. Armourers fit
the tails of these mighty bombs just before bombing-up.
U.S. Army officers were also decoratedwith the Legion of Honour and the Croix
de Guerre.
Veteran's Record
'"THE veteran Martin flying-boat, China•*• Clipper, which was wrecked shortly
after the tenth anniversary of her maidenflight from Chesapeake-Bay, had run up
more than 12,000,000 passenger-milesand 1,000,000 ton-miles.
Her end came when she struck ablacked-out boat during a night landing.
X-ray in IndustryE
QUIPMENT for determining residual
stresses in metals was the special
aspect of the paper read by Dr. R. F.
Hanstock, of High Duty Alloys, Ltd., at.,
the 1945 conference held in London re-
cently by the X-Ray Analysis Group ol
the Institute of Physics. The conference
occupied two days and was opened by
Professor Sir Lawrence Bragg, chairman.
U.S. Air AppointmentsU
.S. War Department has announced
the appointment of Lt. Gen. Barney
M. Giles as commanding general of the
U.S.A.A.F. in the Pacific Ocean area, in
succession to Lt. Gen. Millard F.
Harmon, recently reported missing.
Gen. Giles will be replaced as Chief of
U.S. Army Air Staff by Lt. Gen. Ira
Eaker, former commander of the Medi-
terranean Allied Air Forces, and Lt. Gen.
John K, Cannon, commander of the 12th
Air Force, succeeds Gen. Eaker.
A.T.C. Cadets at Biggin Hill
OVER 400 cadets from South-EastCommand, A.T.C., took part last
week in a memorial church service and
special St. George's Day parade at